Progress report...

Progress report...  Well, we didn't get much done on the move yesterday.  Night before last, Mo'i (our 16 year old male Field Spaniel) was very lethargic – didn't want to eat (major alarm bell with him) and we had to pick him up to get him to go for a walk.  Yesterday morning we took him in to see Dr. Wilson at Steele Canyon Veterinary Clinic, and she quickly found an arrhythmia in his heart.  I had taken his pulse when we saw his lethargy, and it was 88.  Dr. Wilson found it was varying between 88 and 150, randomly – and his heartbeat sounded really weird.  She did a quick EKG and found a very odd pattern.  Bottom line: we have an appointment with a veterinary cardiologist this afternoon.

Today he's looking better – good appetite and he's eager to go out for a walk.  Figures.  But the cardiologist has the EKG, and we need to figure out why this happened.  There are, we understand, lots of possibilities.  They range from very treatable things like potassium imbalances to terminal, like a tumor on the heart.  He's very old and already suffering from terminal cancer, so we're not going to do any treatment that would cause him any pain...

Slow programming movement...

Slow programming movement...  I didn't even know this was a thing!  Reading about it, I see that it's very close to my own notion of the value of careful software craftsmanship.  I've likened it to the difference between an old-fashioned (and I thought, nearly extinct!) cabinet-maker, and the modern variety that hires high school kids, trains them for an hour, and uses MDF and modern fasteners that allow for slop and error...